Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks

Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century
Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and
Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks
challenges existing understandings of the relations between space,
politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account of
networked forms of resistance and political activity.

Explores counter-global struggles in both the past and
present—including both the 18th-century Atlantic world and
contemporary forms of resistance

Examines the productive geographies of contestation

Foregrounds the solidarities and geographies of connection
between different place-based struggles and argues that such
solidarities are essential to produce more plural forms of
globalization

David Featherstone is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. He has key research interests in space, politics and resistance and has published papers in several journals, including Society and Space, Antipode and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

"This persuasive, important, and well-written book rethinks
resistance to dominant forms of globalization by emphasizing the
translocal, often transnational, character of subaltern protest ...
Featherstone has produced a book as dexterous, creative, and
wide-ranging as the political network it seeks to describe."
(Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2010)

"This is a book that demands the attention and engagement of
geographers, and others ‘inside' and ‘outside'
academia, working on the intersections between social movements,
political identities and the neoliberal state, ultimately offering
a productive and uniquely positive approach to understanding and
acting on the issues raised by such concerns." (Area,
February 2011)"Featherstone has produced a book as dexterous,
creative, and wide-ranging as the political networks it seeks to
describe." (Progress in Human Geography and Environment and
Planning D, February 2011)

"This reviewer thinks we should be rather more generous - for,
whatever the political objectives, we should be hugely grateful for
Featherstone's rescuing of the past relational geographies of
resistance." (Progress in Human Geography, February
2011)

"Featherstone's book contributes to our understanding of the
formation of counter-global networks. He shows that transnational
networks are not void of place. ... This book provides a good
starting point for scholars who seek an understanding what happens
to networks when subaltern relationships are spread across the
globe." (Mobilization, March 2010)

"This optimistic take on the role of political contestation in
world-making processes is a welcome change from the gloom and doom
so typical of other geographical texts." (Environment and
Planning A, 2009)

"This book powerfully engages with contemporary relational
understandings of space by drawing upon, critiquing and developing
a rich theoretical palette. This together with the use of evocative
ethnographic material serves to provide a convincing account of how
political identities are created, reworked and deployed in
networked practices of resistance. The book makes a significant
contribution to the theorizing and explaining of political
identities and practices forged through the articulation of
resistance in empirically varied contexts."
–Paul Routledge, University of Glasgow

"Featherstone’s focus on the extra-local ties underpinning
situated subaltern struggle offers a salutary alternative to
conventional accounts of place-based resistance. His book’s
overall argument is as generative as it is critical for remapping
global grievances and the interlinked insurgencies they
inspire."
–Matthew Sparke, University of Washington, Seattle

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